NCAA Basketball 2014-2015 (This may help ease the pain)

[sbr]

Apparently Gary Payton's kid plays at Oregon State.  He had a triple double last night, only the second one ever at OSU and the first since ... his dad in '88.

[katmai]

UDub is up to #13 in polls and 11-0 and after tonight is only Pac-12 team still undefeated.

[Berkut]

Arizona goes down to UNLV at UNLV.

Freshman will be freshman at times. Not a bad loss, to be sure, and as I told my son last night, this game will matter little in the long run - more important that Arizona keeps going out and playing tough opponents in hostile environments in the pre-Pac12 season. And as long as you are willing to do that, you are going to lose some of those games.

UNLV just caught on fire late in the second half. No matter what Arizona did, no matter how solid the defense, they just managed to hit shots. Contested three? Count it. Drive the lane through a double team? Count it.

Missed a shot finally....rebound and score.

[Berkut]

UDub is up to #13 in polls and 11-0 and after tonight is only Pac-12 team still undefeated.

The only Pac-12 team who is going to challenge for the conference title with Arizona, I suspect.


Although Stanford looked pretty good knocking off Texas...

[katmai]

Yeah doesn't hurt that only get Arizona once and it is at home.

[Valmy]

Although Stanford looked pretty good knocking off Texas...

It was against Rick Barnes' dignity to try to score more than 60 points.  Once Stanford surpassed that, they just lost their will to fight on.

[PDH]

Wyoming won last night against the mighty Montana State Bobcats (3-9 on the season), 61-51.  When you play top 250 teams like that you expect a fight, and it was.

Still, Larry Nance, jr. scored 31 points and looks to be fully back from his ACL tear last year.  I sense an NIT bid this year!

[sbr]

https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/87FBA101331145267468634603520_14160272132d497a5ba8.0033.mp4?versionId=5YE4el5guhMdPNKfOj.8c6qaO3MnjILj

I have no idea when in 2014 this happened.  I have been watching it for at least 3 minutes straight now.

[derspiess]

WVU is now 3-0 against ACC teams   but 0-1 against the SEC

Conference play begins this Saturday at TCU, which is still undefeated by bad teams.

[katmai]

I don't want to talk about UDub's last non-con game.
Will see how they fare starting off on road at tough Cal team.

[Berkut]

WVU is now 3-0 against ACC teams   but 0-1 against the SEC

Conference play begins this Saturday at TCU, which is still undefeated by bad teams.

Do they have anyone on their bench who can assault the other teams players? They should try that approach.

[PDH]

Wyoming beats UNLV 76-71.  Since UNLV had beaten Arizona that makes the Pokes destined for the NCAAs.

[CountDeMoney]

Professor fired in UNC scandal
Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina's flagship public university is trying to fire a senior professor, accepted the resignation of another faculty member and dismissed an academic counselor for athletes for their roles in the fraud scandal that rocked the school, campus officials said Wednesday.

Steps to terminate University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill philosophy professor and former faculty leader Jeanette Boxill started on Oct. 22, the same day that a scathing report into the cheating scandal was released, campus Chancellor Carol Folt said in a statement. Boxill is appealing Folt's decision, information that was released after a lawsuit by The Associated Press and nine other media organizations.

North Carolina's public records law requires state agencies, including public universities, to make employee records available. That includes records regarding their dismissal, suspension, or demotion.

UNC-Chapel Hill officials had said the disclosure wasn't required until after an employee has finished appealing the decision, a process that could take years.

The report by former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein found a pattern of fake classes, which allowed 3,100 athletes and other students to earn artificially high grades from 1993 to 2011.

While the sham courses were solely in the African studies department, multiple people around campus knew of them or suspected something but said nothing, the report said. Folt said she was naming Boxill "in light of the extraordinary circumstances underlying the longstanding and intolerable academic irregularities described in the Wainstein Report, as well as her role as chair of the faculty council during a period of time covered by the report."

Campus lawyer David Parker also disclosed that Timothy McMillan resigned after 17 years at the school. He was a senior lecturer in the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, the renamed department where a retired administrator orchestrated and a retired chairman allowed the pattern of no-show classes and generous grades.

Boxill and McMillan did not return phone messages seeking comment.

Parker also said academic counselor Jaimie Lee was terminated, which was previously reported. The conduct of six other campus employees is being reviewed for possible disciplinary action, Parker said. Any who are disciplined will be identified, Parker said.

Boxill directed women's basketball players she advised into the fake courses, at least twice sought to influence the grades given to students, and acknowledged sometimes editing student papers, the report said.

McMillan "effectively knew what was happening (with the fake classes), even if he was careful not to learn all of the details," the report said. Folt said in October that four campus employees were fired and five others disciplined for their roles in an academic fraud scheme.

Tom Ross, president of the 16-campus state university system, added that he was taking "action involving an individual formerly employed on this campus, now employed at another UNC campus."

Beth Bridger, one of the football counselors named in the report as steering players toward the bogus classes, lost her job at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington the day the report was published.

[derspiess]

I like Texas and all and but man they looked terrible last night at home.  Or Oklahoma is just that good. 

Also WVU's RPI is up to 9.  May be their high water mark of the season since their next three games are against ranked Big12 opponents.

[Admiral Yi]

Hoyas squeaked into the top 25.